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registerFinalizer(ForeignObject,Function) -- register a finalizer for a foreign object

Description

If a foreign pointer object corresponds to memory that was not allocated by the GC garbage collector, then a function to properly deallocate this memory when the Pointer object that stores this pointer is garbage collected should be called. The function should take a single argument, a foreign object, typically of type voidstar, which corresponds to the memory to deallocate.

i1 : malloc = foreignFunction("malloc", voidstar, ulong)

o1 = malloc

o1 : ForeignFunction
 
i2 : free = foreignFunction("free", void, voidstar)

o2 = free

o2 : ForeignFunction
 
i3 : finalizer = x -> (print("freeing memory at " | net x); free x)

o3 = finalizer

o3 : FunctionClosure
 
i4 : for i to 9 do (x := malloc 8; registerFinalizer(x, finalizer))
 
i5 : collectGarbage()
freeing memory at 0x7f1914085170
freeing memory at 0x7f1914085190freeing memory at 0x7f19140851b0
freeing memory at 0x7f1914084b40
freeing memory at 0x7f19140850f0
freeing memory at 0x7f1914085110
freeing memory at 0x7f1914085130
freeing memory at 0x7f1914085150
freeing memory at 0x7f19140850d0
freeing memory at 0x7f1914084b60

See also

Ways to use this method:

The source of this document is in ForeignFunctions.m2:1818:0.